Biography
Tatsuji Morimoto was an Issei resident of Wailuku, Maui, and a salesman for Singer Sewing Machine Company. JCCH records his birth year as 1886. His individual record documents arrest in September 1942, Sand Island detention, mainland transfer aboard Ernest Hinds in October 1942, Angel Island in October 1942, Lordsburg October 1942-June 1943 and Santa Fe June 1943-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. This was administrative US wartime civilian confinement in the context of Japanese ancestry. No individual criminal conviction, imposed judicial sentence or exact arrest or release day is established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/morimoto-tatsuji
